John M. Jones

John Marshall Jones (20 July 1820-5 May 1864) was a Brigadier-General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
John Marshall Jones was born in Charlottesville, Virginia on 20 July 1820, and he graduated from West Point in 1841, 39th in a class of 52; he was in the same class as John F. Reynolds, Nathaniel Lyon, Robert S. Garnett, Richard B. Garnett, Amiel W. Whipple, and Israel B. Richardson, all of whom would also be killed in action during the American Civil War. From 1845 to 1852, Jones taught at West Point, and he served as a captain in the US Army during the war against the Mormons in Utah from 1858 to 1860. On 27 May 1861, he resigned his commission in the US Army and joined the Confederate States Army as an artillery captain, later becoming a colonel of infantry in the Army of Northern Virginia. He was wounded in the thigh during the assault on Culp's Hill at the Battle of Gettysburg, and he was again wounded in the Mine Run Campaign of late 1863. On 5 May 1864, he was killed at the Battle of the Wilderness while attemping to rally his brigade.